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A verse to celebrate & welcome spring
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring.
~Thomas Nashe
🎨Aloïs Hans Schram
Thanks for the & and a Happy Anniversary 💜🧚‍♀️

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2021-03-23

March covers of Murzilka ;
Cute vintage illustrations of spring on retro magazine covers in Soviet Union.

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2021-03-23

Celebrating w/#FairyTaleTuesday
with some
🌷"Springtime" by Pierre Auguste Cot, 1873
🌷"Flora Scattering Flowers" by Arnold Böcklin,1875

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2021-03-23

Oscar Wilde wrote a fairy tale called "The Selfish Giant" about a giant who won't let anyone enter his garden. Miss Spring can't enter the garden, so Old Man Winter stays there. Then children sneak in to play & the snow melts, bringing Miss Spring at last.

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2021-03-23

The Old Woman of Winter and Wise Woman is the Cailleach, a trickster spirit of Gaelic-speaking regions. Frost is her coat laid on the ground, for winter is her time, and she can spite you or bless you if you are kind. Don't fear her: embrace her

🖼: J. Brideson

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2021-03-17

Maman Brigitte is a loa, a white woman with fiery red hair, a taste for rum and spices, and a nasty mouth. Wife of Baron Samedi, she is none other than Brigid of Kildare, born through the marriage of Catholic sainthood and Yoruba religion.

🖼: G. Zielinska

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2021-03-17

Princess Aine was fought over by her lover Fergus of the Fianna (warriors with supernatural skills) and Curoi of Tuatha de Danann (the fairy race). They settled it with a game of hurling where Fergus scored the winning goal. mythology

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2021-03-17

Suppose the legendary Hound of Ulster from Irish lore and medieval manuscript has an itch. What does “itch” mean to you in this context and would you help him scratch it? https://t.co/QL2jYbhpsz

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2021-03-17

Fairy trees were portals to fairy worlds in Ireland. Therefore, one never felled a fairy tree —often a mighty hawthorn with gnarled, old roots —the doorway to fairy abodes. To this day, people bring offerings to these old & beloved trees. 🧚‍♀️🌳

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2021-03-16

Stephen Reid was a Scottish illustrator who illustrated Eleanor Hull's The Boys' Cúchullain (1904). An excellent team in my opinion to share the tales of Cúchullain anew. But always felt sorry for the real Cúchullain (the dog)

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2021-03-16

The Morrigan is the Phantom Queen, goddess of death and war and prophecy. A Sovereign Queen and a wife of the Dagda, she is a shapeshifter and triple goddess, with her two sisters Badb and Macha representing her connection to crows and horses.

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Illustrations by Canadian artist Jillian Tamaki (b.1980) for Irish Myths and Legends(Folio Society) by Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) Lady Gregory, dramatist & folklorist, co-founded the Irish Literary & the Abbey Theatres with W.B. Yeats

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Origins of the Jack-O’-Lantern: Legend of Stingy Jack
Irish folklore is full of descriptions of a character known as Stingy Jack. A drunkard and cheat, Jack manages to swindle the devil. https://t.co/uetxN7Degn

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The Curupira are demonic fairies of Brazilian folklore, who resembles a dwarf with red hair. They prey on poachers and hunters who take more than they need and they create a high pitched whistling sound to drive its victim to madness.

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2021-03-16


☘️Fun ☘️
Did you know there are no lady leprechauns?
In traditional Irish folk tales, there are no female leprechauns, only little guys who spend their days making & mending shoes which means they earned the gold they guarded.

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2021-03-16

White Tiger of West, Red Phoenix of South, Azure Dragon of East, Black Tortoise of North: these are the Four Symbols (四象), the four beasts protecting the night's sky. These four legendary guardians are among the most important symbols in East Asian astrology.

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2021-03-10

Vortigern's tower would not stand, said the boy Merlin, because beneath it fought two dragons, a red and a white dragon. Vortigern laughed him off but in a storm the two dragons emerged, then fought: the red won, and the red was Uther Pendragon's symbol.

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2021-03-10

As she was sleeping, the three bears came home.
"Someone's been eating my porridge," growled the Papa bear.
"Someone's been eating my porridge," said the Mama bear.
"Someone's been eating my porridge and they ate it all up!" cried the Baby bear.

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2021-03-10

Falkor, the 43-foot-long luckdragon in the 1984 film, 'The NeverEnding Story' with a dog-like face which definitely stands out among other dragons! The message of Michael Ende's story, dare to dream and fly high through books is a powerful one.

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2021-03-10